Letterpress prints using dice as “type”
From Etsy seller Stukenborg. It occurs to me that, besides (the admittedly beautiful) geometric patterns shown here, one could probably work out a way to do monochrome images this way. [via Dude Craft]
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SparkL Motion, an Arduino-powered ribbon necklace
Jen Savage of Alpha One Labs combined her software and sewing skills to make this SparkL Motion ribbon necklace.
Arcade sculpture
Artist Steve D’Angelo sent us a link to the video of this lovely electronic sculpture he made, an homage to arcade video games. He says that our very own Make: Electronics was an inspiration/guide for him. Nice to see the book is inspiring real-world results. Steve Gallery In the Maker Shed: Make: Electronics Our Price: […]
JardÃn para un futuro, no muy lejano – Garden for a not too distant future
Luzinterruptus puts up leaves trapped in plastic boxes with green LEDs in urban areas. Perhaps a criticism of the lack of green spaces in modern cities, please constructively debate the merits of using LEDs and plastic in the comments along with other ideas to encourage more green spaces :) I like Guerrilla Gardening…: Guerilla gardening […]
An actual Turing machine
All joking aside, this thing may be the most beautiful piece of kinetic art I have ever seen. It has a Cartesian robot to draw 1s or 0s on the tape as needed, a rolling felt-covered drum for erasing symbols, a camera that can recognize what symbols have already been written, a bank of white LEDs to provide illumination for the camera, and a beautiful custom control panel.
Nature by Numbers: linking math to nature
Filmmaker Cristóbal Vila produced this short animation, called Nature By Numbers, which shows examples of how mathematical relationships such as the Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio, and the Delaunay triangulation can be found in the natural world
Rubber bearskin rug
Cast in urethane by Dutch designer Eelko Moorer. White and black versions also exist. [via designboom]